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Catalog date:
2023-04-20
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Proof Listener:
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Baseball Ballads

Grantland Rice (1880 - 1954)

Grantland Rice, was a sports journalist with several newspapers, although his Sportlights column, in the New York Tribune was what brought him fame, and through it he helped popularize golf in the US, and to help the cause of American Professional Football. This book of poetry, is a tribute to baseball, the sport he played at Vanderbilt. - Summary by cavaet

Genre(s): Single author, Games

Language: English

Keyword(s): baseball (22)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Dedicated to the Fan EliseDee
 00:00:51
Play 02 Play Ball Cavaet
 00:01:24
Play 03 When the Bug is on the Bawl Cavaet
 00:02:19
Play 04 Casey's Revenge Cavaet
 00:04:55
Play 05 The Bug's View-Point EliseDee
 00:02:19
Play 06 The Courtship of a Son of Swat EliseDee
 00:02:22
Play 07 The Bush Leaguer's Dream Cavaet
 00:02:21
Play 08 Springtime in the History Room EliseDee
 00:01:29
Play 09 The Hold-Out League Cavaet
 00:01:46
Play 10 The Song of the Base Hit EliseDee
 00:01:39
Play 11 On the Road to Rooters' Row Cavaet
 00:02:58
Play 12 "'Til the Last Man Is Out" EliseDee
 00:02:15
Play 13 The Bushers Cavaet
 00:01:27
Play 14 The Climax of Fan Joy EliseDee
 00:01:59
Play 15 Songs of Swat -- "You Uster Bat .300" EliseDee
 00:01:58
Play 16 The Test Cavaet
 00:01:17
Play 17 The Laugh on Nero Cavaet
 00:02:17
Play 18 Curfewed Cavaet
 00:03:33
Play 19 The Fan and His Way Cavaet
 00:02:36
Play 20 Over the Plate Cavaet
 00:02:17
Play 21 Knocking Slang EliseDee
 00:01:42
Play 22 The Real Springtime Cavaet
 00:01:36
Play 23 The Raven Up-to-Date Cavaet
 00:02:15
Play 24 A Day in the Bleachers Alan Mapstone
 00:02:21
Play 25 A Warning Cavaet
 00:01:45
Play 26 Out on the Lines Larry Gieseke
 00:01:41
Play 27 On Memory's Wall Cavaet
 00:01:47
Play 28 The Game Cavaet
 00:01:40
Play 29 Mudville's Fate Cavaet
 00:03:10
Play 30 A Toast Worth the While Cavaet
 00:02:00
Play 31 The Champs of the Alley League Cavaet
 00:02:54
Play 32 The Man Who Played with Anson on the Old Chicago Team Cavaet
 00:05:17
Play 33 The Record Cavaet
 00:01:06
Play 34 "The Major Leaguer's Daugher; Or, The Turning of the Tide" Marcus Shera
 00:02:15
Play 35 Pen Snapshot of the British Fan Cavaet
 00:01:42
Play 36 On the Coaching Line Cavaet
 00:01:59
Play 37 The Goods Cavaet
 00:01:12
Play 38 The Winter League Wonder Cavaet
 00:02:06
Play 39 A Tip to the Fan Flock Cavaet
 00:01:44
Play 40 As the Game "Breaks" Cavaet
 00:01:57
Play 41 The Grand Old Winter League Cavaet
 00:01:31
Play 42 The Slide of Paul Revere Cavaet
 00:03:00
Play 43 The Annual Return Cavaet
 00:02:01
Play 44 In the Good Old Winter Time Cavaet
 00:02:03
Play 45 After the Game Cavaet
 00:01:36
Play 46 On Rooters' Row Cavaet
 00:02:25
Play 47 The Love Sonnets of a Son of Swat Cavaet
 00:05:44
Play 48 At the End of the Game Cavaet
 00:01:09
Play 49 The Mogul's Dream Cavaet
 00:02:11
Play 50 Hard-Luck Adam Cavaet
 00:01:51
Play 51 Denton (Cy) Young BriaHolmes
 00:03:51
Play 52 The Ump's Midwinter Dream Cavaet
 00:01:46
Play 53 A Real Job for Teddy Cavaet
 00:02:58
Play 54 The Shock Cavaet
 00:01:17
Play 55 When "Wifey" Reads Dope EliseDee
 00:02:30
Play 56 A Hard-Luck Yarn Cavaet
 00:02:31
Play 57 A Fan's Diary Cavaet
 00:03:34
Play 58 Game Called Alan Mapstone
 00:01:53